ShirsenduK

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Access to India's Aadhaar citizen database selling for under USD $10(tribuneindia.com)
121 points by ShirsenduK 9y ago|26 comments
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Stilumus – New JavaScript Framework from Basecamp is out(github.com)
4 points by ShirsenduK 9y ago|2 comments
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dItUGF8GdTw
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Twitter shadow banning and censorship in India(telegraphindia.com)
3 points by ShirsenduK 9y ago|0 comments
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
GDP is down from 7.2 to 5.7. Those roadside merchants will never pay tax as they don't make enough. Internet connectivity/density is a joke in this country. Everyone is using cash again and you have to still pay bribes. Its time w
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
The title is misleading. He plans to, but hasn't!
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Thumbor is an awesome open source solution which has proved itself in many high traffic sites. https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
In no particular order. https://github.com/tj https://github.com/wycats https://github.com/eviltrout https://github.com/coding-horror https://github.com/chr
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Have been using Bootstrap 4 on production at https://www.maplenest.com for almost a year now. It has Flexbox!!! Although our team has added additional classes to get some of the UI done, I am sure, we could have done it using on
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
You are correct. I should have explained it better. I tried to over simplify it and ended up writing misinformation.
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
This is not the case. Please read the official response from the Archive Team. https://www.medianama.com/2017/08/223-india-blocks-access-in...
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
For people saying; "its working for me". Here is the explanation. The block has been implemented using a hosts based method. Such methods work in HTTP as anyone on the network can intercept the traffic and modify it. This snooping
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
The following article has a tweet from a journo which says its because it was hosting a movie (Jab Harry Met Sejal) illegally and the Madras court thought banning archive.org is a solution. http://www.dailyo.in/variety/
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Mostly yes. This has more information https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/c... .
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
When I spoke about bandwidth it was about the server. I should have made it more clear. Those costs add up over months. The alt tags are VERY important for SEO purposes.
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Wow! I primarily work on consumer facing web products where speed does play a big part but glad to know where you are coming from. I have not had such request or perspective. :) Thanks for sharing your experience. Agree, that its not the fi
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Same here. There has been no notification yet. I am as lost as you. :(
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Even when your webpage has over 100s of images? Which is the case for listing pages of e-commerce sites, video sites, social networks etc. As a frontend engineer, I find every way to achieve my goals as every ms matters :).
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Google Chrome Developers/Google Developers Youtube channel has great content on Frontend optimisations by Paul Irish and others. They teach you what to measure and how. You might want to check that if you are interested in Frontend Eng
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Critical Path CSS is not fairly large, its fairly small in most cases.
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
That is not the typical use case. As web engineers one of our goals is to make websites faster. Speed is a very important UX. Also unless you have a fast website, people will drop off your site and google won't rank you. No point of ha
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
What is the use of metadata of an image while rendering an image on a webpage?
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
When your CSS file gets large. Which is the case in most sites today thanks to frameworks like Bootstrap. Your page will wait for the CSS file to download, process and repaint. Inlining some of the CSS i.e. critical path CSS can give you li
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
WebPageTest offers more actionable insights. Chrome Developer Tools and Google PageSpeed offer almost the same features.
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
And India has gone ahead and banned them! https://www.medianama.com/2017/08/223-india-blocks-access-in...
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
I am 31 too! :D And although I like travelling I haven't done much of it in the past year because guess what, I am getting a house too. But I am getting it built which prevents me from moving until its completed. So, I did the layout,
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
The book is about being "the new rich". The new rich is not about having a billion dollars in your bank. Its about having enough money and most importantly the time and brain space to enjoy your time. In the book Tim, emphasises t
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
12 years of professional coding, still haven't been able to use my data structures knowledge!
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
Marketing automation is not about clickbait but knowing who your users are, what are their biases and then showing you only that ad which will have a response and not show what won't work. Thereby, making $ spent on marketing more effi
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by ShirsenduK 9y ago
As the world goes more towards digital content, the more robots/AI/software will do the marketing. The growth of Facebook revenues is a clear indication that software is better at marketing than humans. They know which buttons to

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